Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD Hear my name
Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
BA, Amherst College

Pronouns: he/him/his



Our work focuses on immunology in the lung and its influence on acute lower respiratory tract infections. Our research is illuminating the regulation and function of innate and adaptive immune cells and signals in the lung, and how variations in these parameters determine pneumonia susceptibility and outcome. Lung defense consists of immune resistance (the ability to eliminate microbes) and tissue resilience (the ability to prevent or withstand injurious stimuli from infection and inflammation). Both activities are accomplished by the coordinated activities of diverse cell types within the lung, involving some that are constitutively present (including diverse types of epithelial cells, macrophages, lymphocytes, and more) as well as others newly recruited to the infected tissue (including neutrophils plus additional myeloid or lymphoid cells). Effective and productive communication amongst these cells can efficiently destroy microbes without damaging the lung, maintaining respiratory health. Dysregulation of these pathways instead promotes infection (e.g., pneumonia), injury (e.g., the acute respiratory distress syndrome), and other pulmonary diseases. Elucidating factors that differentiate lung infection resistance and susceptibility will enable new approaches to preventing and treating pneumonia.

Director
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pulmonary Center


Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Biochemistry & Cell Biology


Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Virology, Immunology & Microbiology


Member
Boston University
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research


Member
Boston University
Genome Science Institute


Graduate Medical Sciences Educator and Mentor (Primary Mentor of Graduate Students)
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences




Fibrin in the Infected Lung
02/15/2024 - 01/31/2028 (PI)
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
5R01HL171499-02

Lung interstitial macrophage remodeling during and after recovery from pneumococcal respiratory infection
09/01/2025 - 08/31/2027 (Key Person / Mentor)
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
1F31HL178234-01A1

LOX-1 as a protective countermeasure in response to lung infection
06/15/2023 - 05/31/2027 (Subcontract PI)
University of Massachusetts, Medical School NIH NHLBI
5R01HL165718-02

Pulmonary pathophysiology sub-phenotypes of pneumonia
02/01/2022 - 01/31/2027 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
5R01AI162850-04

Biology of the Lung: A Multidisciplinary Program
07/01/2021 - 06/30/2026 (Multi-PI)
PI: Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
5T32HL007035-48

Sub-phenotyping pneumonia by lung pathobiology
09/01/2023 - 06/30/2025 (Key Person / Mentor)
PI: Bradley E. Hiller, Ph.D.
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
5F32HL170650-02

Lung-resident antibacterial heterotypic immunity
07/01/2019 - 06/30/2025 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
5R01AI115053-09

Protective lung memory B cell functions and dynamics during respiratory infection
06/01/2021 - 05/31/2025 (Key Person / Mentor)
PI: Neelou Etesami
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
5F30HL158109-04

Pneumonia Biology
01/11/2017 - 12/31/2024 (PI)
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
5R35HL135756-07

PASC Pathobiology: long-term remodeling after acute infection
03/01/2022 - 02/29/2024 (Subcontract PI)
President & Fellows of Harvard College on behalf of Harvard Medical School China Evergrande Gr


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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2025 The anatomy of T-cell mediated neutrophil recruitment during lung infection 1R21AI191650-01
2025 Fibrin in the Infected Lung 5R01HL171499-02
2025 Pulmonary pathophysiology sub-phenotypes of pneumonia 5R01AI162850-04
2025 Biology of the Lung: A Multidisciplinary Program 5T32HL007035-50
2024 Fibrin in the Infected Lung 1R01HL171499-01
2024 Pulmonary pathophysiology sub-phenotypes of pneumonia 5R01AI162850-03
2024 Biology of the Lung: A Multidisciplinary Program 5T32HL007035-49
2023 Pulmonary pathophysiology sub-phenotypes of pneumonia 5R01AI162850-02
2023 Pneumonia Biology 5R35HL135756-07
2023 Lung-resident antibacterial heterotypic immunity 5R01AI115053-09
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  1. Samarasinghe AE, Randell SH, Kulkarni HS, Weiser JN, Quinton LJ, Dickson RP, Mizgerd JP, Orihuela CJ, Parker D, Robinson KM, Prince AS, Evans SE, Kolls JK, Lee JS, Jeyaseelan S, Torres A, Miller LA, Hamilton DJ, Gómez MI, Moore BB, Walker RL, Barkal LJ, Hook JL, Lau GW, Sharma J, Witzenrath M, Dela Cruz CS. Best Practices in the Development and Use of Experimental Models of Bacterial Pneumonia: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2025 Aug; 73(2):178-199.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40748059; PMCID: PMC12334885; DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2025-0322ST;
     
  2. Caobi A, Su CM, Beusch CM, Kenney D, Darling TL, Feng S, Semaan M, Wacquiez A, Sanders NL, Tully ES, Chen DY, Evdokimova M, Ding Z, Jones D, Alysandratos KD, Mizgerd JP, Kirchdoerfer RN, Kotton DN, Douam F, Crossland NA, Boon ACM, Gordon DE, Baker SC, Saeed M. SARS-CoV-2 nsp15 enhances viral virulence by subverting host antiviral defenses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jun 17; 122(24):e2426528122.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40504150; PMCID: PMC12184426; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2426528122;
     
  3. Fredberg JJ, Mizgerd JP. Combining innovative methodologies with deep personal connections to further physiology research: lessons from Joseph D. Brain, ScD. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2025 Aug 01; 329(2):L197-L199. PMID: 40454782
     
  4. Shastry A, Hiller BE, Sanders NL, Tseng AE, Kothari J, O'Connell AK, Gertje HP, Ha CT, Murzin E, Traber KE, Lederer JA, Jones MR, Douam F, Beach TG, Remick DG, Crossland NA, Monti S, Campbell JD, Mizgerd JP. Sub-phenotypes of pneumonia defined by pulmonary histopathological features. bioRxiv. 2025 May 20.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40475544; PMCID: PMC12139937; DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.18.654716;
     
  5. Vasquez JH, Yuan J, Leow CJ, Crossey E, Shao F, Carty S, Dominguez VA, Lo M, Mizgerd JP, Fetterman JL, Lau NC, Fine A, Jones MR. Somatic Miwi2 modulates mitochondrial function in airway multiciliated cells and exacerbates influenza pathogenesis. iScience. 2025 Apr 18; 28(4):112291.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40241756; PMCID: PMC12002665; DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112291;
     
  6. Traber KE, Mizgerd JP. The Integrated Pulmonary Immune Response to Pneumonia. Annu Rev Immunol. 2025 Apr; 43(1):545-569.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40036700; DOI: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-082323-031642;
     
  7. Soucy AM, Brune JE, Jayaraman A, Shenoy AT, Korkmaz FT, Etesami NS, Hiller BE, Martin IM, Goltry WN, Ha CT, Crossland NA, Campbell JD, Beach TG, Traber KE, Jones MR, Quinton LJ, Bosmann M, Frevert CW, Mizgerd JP. Transcriptomic responses of lung mesenchymal cells during pneumonia. JCI Insight. 2025 Feb 25; 10(7).View Related Profiles. PMID: 39998887; PMCID: PMC11981624; DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.177084;
     
  8. Ravi VR, Korkmaz FT, De Ana CL, Lu L, Shao FZ, Odom CV, Barker KA, Ramanujan A, Niszczak EN, Goltry WN, Martin IMC, Ha CT, Quinton LJ, Jones MR, Fine A, Welch JD, Chen F, Belkina AC, Mizgerd JP, Shenoy AT. Lung CD4+ resident memory T cells use airway secretory cells to stimulate and regulate onset of allergic airway neutrophilic disease. Cell Rep. 2025 Mar 25; 44(3):115294.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39965565; PMCID: PMC12011213; DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115294;
     
  9. Harlow OS, Ravi VR, Ke F, Sanders NL, Armstrong E, Mizgerd JP, Shenoy AT. The mysterious case of missing lymphocytes: a cautionary tale of interinstitutional variability in outcomes of lung dissociation protocols. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2025 Feb 01; 328(2):L260-L266. PMID: 39786964; PMCID: PMC12178127; DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00323.2024;
     
  10. Yin J, Hayes KM, Ong MS, Mizgerd JP, Cunningham-Rundles C, Dominguez I, Barmettler S, Farmer JR, Maglione PJ. Common Variable Immunodeficiency Clinical Manifestations Are Shaped by Presence and Type of Heterozygous NFKB1 Variants. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2025 Mar; 13(3):639-646.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39672378; PMCID: PMC11885011; DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2024.12.002;
     
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This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 157 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2012

YearPublications
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20064
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201711
20184
20193
20205
202111
20227
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2023 American Thoracic Society: Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishment
2021 BU: Jerome S. Brody, MD, Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
2021 American Thoracic Society: Scientific Accomplishment Award for Allergy, Immunology & Inflammation
2020 BU: University Lecture
2018 American Thoracic Society: ATS Fellow
2017 NIH: NHLBI Outstanding Investigator
2017 BUSM Department of Medicine: Robert Dawson Evans Research Mentoring Award
1999 Francis Families Foundation: Parker B. Francis Fellow in Pulmonary Research
1998 American Lung Association: Edward Livingston Trudeau Scholar

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